Project Description

Production of bio-products from renewable raw materials is always more interesting in chemical industries. Chemical products as for example amino acids, organic acids, enzymes and vitamins can be produced in bioprocesses with the use of yeasts or bacteria, but these products are often too expensive to compete with conventional products. One of the reasons of these high costs is the recovery of products in down-stream processes after synthesis, where products are in complex diluted aqueous solutions. The challenge is to isolate the products selectively and with high yield from these mixtures increasing product concentration by removal of excess water. The aim of the project funded by the European Union and in cooperation with several partners from industry and research is to provide innovative solutions for downstream processing with integration of different separation techniques. This is essential to a successful and competitive development of sustainable processes and it is a benefit for all industries dealing with diluted aqueous systems.

Student Projects

Student Projects available

Currently, I cannot offer any Student Projects.

Supervised and ongoing Student Projects

Experimental investigation of the vapor-liquid equilibrium in systems of water - acetic acid -xylose.

[Studienarbeit, concluded]

Experimental investigation of the vapor-liquid equilibrium in systems of water + acetic acid + sugars.

Education and Career

Bachelor, Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna

06/2012-

10/2012

Bachelor thesis at Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering: “The role of inorganic salts in the separartion by Nanofiltration of fructose by glucose”